Improvement in hoes and rakes



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AUGUSTIN ELLIS AND vOLIVIER ALBERTSON, OF SALEM, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 91,317, dated .Tune 15, 1869.

ILIPROVEMENT IN EOES .AND RAKES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part o! the lame.

To all whom zt may concern Y Y Be it known that we, AUGUSTIN ELLIS and OLIVER Ann'rsom of Salem, in the county .of Washington,

and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hoes and Rakes and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact p description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in whiclr- Figure lis a side view of our invention, with the shank partly in section.

This invention relates to a new and improvedmanner oi' attaching hoes and rakes to their shanks and handles, as hereinafter fully sho'wu and described,

. whereby a very hrm and secure attachment ils obtained, and one which will admit of the hoe orrake being set at any desired angle with the shank, or handle, and readily detachedwhen necessary for grinding, repairs, &c.

In the accompanying sheet oi drawings- A represents a hoe, and; B a rake, such as are genp erally used for garden implements, and each is pro-l vided with a curved tang, O, which forms a part of a circle, as shown clearly in fig. 2. This tang may be of rectangular form in its transverse sectin; that, `at least, would be the preferable form, or as good as any.

D is a handle, which may be made of wood, as

iusual, and E is a metal shank, made with a socket, to

receive the end of the handle, a pin, or screw, c, passing through the shank and handle.

The. outer part of this shank, beyond the socket,- is'solid, and has a curved mortise,b, made through it, to admit of the tang C passing through it, a screlw, F, passing into the end of the shank, and bearing against the tang, to hold itin position.

If necessary, the end of the screw F may be made of pointed or conical form, and the outer` or convex side of' the .shank E may have a series of holes made in it, atequal' rdistances apart, to receive said point of the screw. This might, in certain cases, be necessary.

It will be seen, from the above description, that the tang O may be adjusted higher up or lower down in the shank, and the hoe or rake thereby adjusted, so

as to form a greater or less angle with the shank, as circumstances may require.

It will also vbe seen that the hoe or rake may be readily detached from the shank, for the purpose of grinding or for repairs, and also that hoes or rakes of different sizes maybe attached to one and the same handle, as the nature of the work may require.

Having thus described our invention,

We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The hoe or rake-head, when provided with the curved tang C and the metal socket E, secured to the handle D, when' provided with the curved mortise b, corresponding to the curvature ofthe tang, and with the end set-screw F, adapted to engage with the outer convex side of the tang, by means of the recesses formed therein, as herein shown and described, for the purpose specified.

r AUGUSTIN ELLIS.

OLIVER ALBERTSON.

v Witnesses:

Wannee W. STEVENS, Jonas B. BERKEY. 

